Carl Bacon, CIPM

Carl Bacon, CIPM,  joined StatPro Group plc as Chairman in April 2000. StatPro provides sophisticated data and software solutions to the asset management industry. Carl also runs his own consultancy business providing advice to asset managers on various risk and performance measurement issues.

Prior to joining StatPro Carl was Director of Risk Control and Performance at Foreign & Colonial Management Ltd, Vice President Head of Performance (Europe) for J P Morgan Investment Management Inc., and Head of Performance for Royal Insurance Asset Management.

Carl holds a B.Sc. Hons. in Mathematics from Manchester University.  A founding member of both the Investment Performance Council and GIPS^®, Carl is a member of the GIPS Executive Committee, chair of the  Verification Sub-Committee, a member of the UK Investment Performance Committee and a member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Performance Measurement.

Carl is also the author of “Practical Portfolio Performance Measurement & Attribution” part of the Wiley Finance Series, numerous articles and papers and editor of  “Advanced Portfolio Attribution Analysis.”